Lyric
#640 for girls in 2025, 451 births · #1,388 for boys in 2025, 132 births
Given to girls 81.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 1,223 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 20,875since 1945
Lyric over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #640 | 451 | #1,388 | 132 |
| 2024 | #593 | 508 | #1,364 | 138 |
| 2023 | #537 | 564 | #1,176 | 174 |
| 2022 | #469 | 678 | #1,057 | 208 |
| 2021 | #413 | 760 | #1,067 | 200 |
| 2020 | #408 | 768 | #959 | 227 |
| 2019 | #364 | 869 | #1,047 | 196 |
| 2018 | #321 | 1,017 | #931 | 226 |
| 2017 | #306 | 1,072 | #940 | 222 |
| 2016 | #276 | 1,139 | #958 | 215 |
| 2015 | #286 | 1,120 | #890 | 248 |
| 2014 | #271 | 1,223 | #859 | 257 |
| 2013 | #275 | 1,168 | #799 | 275 |
| 2012 | #294 | 1,083 | #824 | 266 |
| 2011 | #324 | 975 | #860 | 246 |
| 2010 | #397 | 806 | #808 | 265 |
| 2009 | #407 | 779 | #883 | 238 |
| 2008 | #429 | 739 | #940 | 216 |
| 2007 | #550 | 556 | #954 | 207 |
| 2006 | #643 | 447 | #1,127 | 153 |
| 2005 | #686 | 404 | #1,967 | 64 |
| 2004 | #716 | 371 | #2,208 | 52 |
| 2003 | #677 | 389 | #2,579 | 39 |
| 2002 | #740 | 328 | #2,249 | 46 |
| 2001 | #827 | 280 | #3,617 | 23 |
| 2000 | #800 | 285 | #2,993 | 29 |
| 1999 | #682 | 333 | #3,103 | 26 |
| 1998 | #640 | 360 | #2,651 | 31 |
| 1997 | #600 | 377 | #3,261 | 22 |
| 1996 | #549 | 425 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #633 | 344 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #2,752 | 44 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 | — | |
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| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | — | |
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| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 | — | |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
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| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
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| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lyric! It came in at #4,556, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1967, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Lyric
- 47 spots since 2024 (#593 → #640)
- 232 spots since 2020 (#408 → #640)
- 354 spots since 2015 (#286 → #640)
- Biggest jump: 2,119 spots in 1995 (#2,752 → #633)
- Biggest drop: 118 spots in 2000 (#682 → #800)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 2014 at #271 (1,223 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1995–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,461 girls born in 2014 were named Lyric (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,564 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 50.2% of all girls named Lyric (10,472) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1944, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #4,556 (1945) | #4,556 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 11 | #6,246 (1968) | #6,419 |
| 1970s | 17 | #4,905 (1976) | #6,450 |
| 1980s | 111 | #3,690 (1988) | #5,008 |
| 1990s | 1,952 | #549 (1996) | #2,750 |
| 2000s | 4,578 | #407 (2009) | #648 |
| 2010s | 10,472 | #271 (2014) | #311 |
| 2020s | 3,729 | #408 (2020) | #510 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lyric in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 1,931 of them was named Lyric, which outranked 98.0% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 9,154 of them was named Lyric, which outranked 92.6% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,044Everest197
- #1,044Meir197
- #1,044Seamus197
- #1,047Lyric196
- #1,047Agustin196
- #1,047Avi196
- #1,047Reagan196
- #1,052Gus195
- #1,052Zev195
- #1,054Adler194
Tied with 4 names at #1,047; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.